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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wanda complain about in New York in Chapter 5?
(a) The rude people.
(b) The subway.
(c) The taxi drivers.
(d) The weather.

2. To whom does Cuckoo introduce Barbie inside the house in Chapter 5?
(a) George's friends.
(b) Barbie's old goat.
(c) Barbie's old toys.
(d) Cuckoo's evil birds.

3. Whom does Barbie see behind Luz, approaching them as they near the Brightly Shining Sea?
(a) The Black Guards.
(b) Thessaly.
(c) Foxglove and Hazel.
(d) The Cuckoo.

4. What does Barbie discover about Cuckoo in Chapter 5?
(a) Cuckoo is the little girl who is Barbie as a child.
(b) Cuckoo is cowardly.
(c) Cuckoo is a huge bird.
(d) Cuckoo cannot fly.

5. Who is Judy's "token straight friend"?
(a) Barbie.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Rose Walker.
(d) Thessaly.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Morpheus offer to grant a boon?

2. What power does the Cuckoo exert over Barbie in Chapter 5?

3. What does Barbie dream of when she falls asleep in the car at the end of the book?

4. Whom does Thessaly kill in Chapter 5, saying that it is a bad idea to let that type of creature talk?

5. What disgusts Barbie when she walks through the diner in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Barbie and the Cuckoo say about childhood abuse and imagination?

2. When Thessaly, Hazel and Foxglove walk along the Moon's Road, where do they end up and what do they do?

3. What does Thessaly tell Hazel and Foxglove about cuckoo birds?

4. Why is Wanda angry and what does George explain to her about the Moon in Chapter 4?

5. To whom does the Cuckoo introduce Barbie?

6. Who does Wilkinson mention to Barbie in Chapter 4 that she remembers?

7. Who rejects Barbie at the funeral at the end of the book and why?

8. What does Barbie want to do with Tantoblin's body?

9. What is the boon that Morpheus offers Barbie?

10. What happens in New York when the storm grows violent?

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